Optimization

These days, the nature of services and the volume of demand in the telecommu- nication industry is changing radically, with the replacement of analog transmis- sion and traditional copper cables by digital technology and fiber optic transmis- sion equipment.

This is a collection of recent novel contributions in game theory from a group of prominent authors in the field.

The primary purpose in this book is to present an integrated and innovative methodological approach for the construction and selection of equity portfolios.

Dieses Handbuch aus unserer Reihe "Managementwissen für Studium und Praxis" bietet eine komprimierte Einführung in die allgemeine BWL.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and instructive coverage of vehicular traffic flow dynamics and modeling.

Due to its huge success in industry, mechanism design has been one of the central research topics at the interface of economics and computer science.

The book originates from the Elliptic PDE course given by the first author at the Scuola Normale Superiore in recent years.

The German edition of this book, first published in 1966, has been quite popular; we did not, however, consider publishing an English edition because a number of excellent textbooks in this field already exist.

This contributed volume discusses aspects of nonlinear analysis in which optimization plays an important role, as well as topics which are applied to the study of optimization problems.

The results presented here (including the assessment of a new tool - inhibitory trees) offer valuable tools for researchers in the areas of data mining, knowledge discovery, and machine learning, especially those whose work involves decision tables with many-valued decisions.

This is the first book focusing exclusively on fuzzy dual numbers.

This brief aims to merge the theories of fractional calculus and discrete calculus in a concise but comprehensive manner.

This book introduces research presented at the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Optimization Techniques (ICDCOT-2021), a two-day conference, where researchers, engineers, and academicians from all over the world came together to share their experiences and findings on all aspects of distributed computing and its applications in diverse areas.

This book develops a new approach called parameter advising for finding a parameter setting for a sequence aligner that yields a quality alignment of a given set of input sequences.

This book introduces the theory and applications of uncertain optimal control, and establishes two types of models including expected value uncertain optimal control and optimistic value uncertain optimal control.

This volume presents significant advances in a number of theories and problems of Mathematical Analysis and its applications in disciplines such as Analytic Inequalities, Operator Theory, Functional Analysis, Approximation Theory, Functional Equations, Differential Equations, Wavelets, Discrete Mathematics and Mechanics.

This book contains extended, in-depth presentations of the plenary talks from the 16th French-German-Polish Conference on Optimization, held in Krakow, Poland in 2013.

MATRIX is Australia's international, residential mathematical research institute.

Master linear programming with this comprehensive guide, covering fundamentals, advanced methods, and practical applications using Excel, MATLAB, and Lindo.

This book systematically studies how game theory can be used to improve security in chemical industrial areas, capturing the intelligent interactions between security managers and potential adversaries.

Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising?

It is impossible to understand modern economics without knowledge of the basic tools of gametheory and mechanism design.

The theory of adaptive control is concerned with construction of strategies so that the controlled system behaves in a desirable way, without assuming the complete knowledge of the system.

This successful book provides in its second edition an interactive and illustrative guide from two-dimensional curve fitting to multidimensional clustering and machine learning with neural networks or support vector machines.

OmeGA: A Competent Genetic Algorithm for Solving Permutation and Scheduling Problems addresses two increasingly important areas in GA implementation and practice.

Researchers working with nonlinear programming often claim "e;the word is non- linear"e; indicating that real applications require nonlinear modeling.

This book presents high-quality original contributions on positive systems, including topics such as: monotone dynamical systems in mathematical biology and game theory; mathematical developments for networked systems in biology, chemistry and the social sciences; linear and nonlinear positive operators; dynamical analysis, observation and control of positive distributed parameter systems; stochastic realization theory; biological systems with positive variables and positive controls; iterated function systems; nonnegative dynamic processes; and dimensioning problems for collaborative systems.

This book explains how energy demand and energy consumption in new buildings can be predicted and how these aspects and the resulting CO2 emissions can be reduced.

A comprehensive introduction to the tools, techniques and applications of convex optimization.

Tabu Search (TS) and, more recently, Scatter Search (SS) have proved highly effective in solving a wide range of optimization problems, and have had a variety of applications in industry, science, and government.

This work was accepted as a dissertation by the University of Muenster, Germany, in 2004.

This book describes the interplay of mechanics, electronics, electrotechnics, automation and biomechanics.

This book is an introduction to game theory from a mathematical perspective.

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The subject of antenna design, primarily a discipline within electrical en- neering, is devoted to the manipulation of structural elements of and/or the electrical currents present on a physical object capable of supporting such a current.

The goal of this book is to gather in a single work the most relevant concepts related in optimization methods, showing how such theories and methods can be addressed using the open source, multi-platform R tool.

Computer Science and Operations Research continue to have a synergistic relationship and this book represents the results of cross-fertilization between OR/MS and CS/AI.

In the early fifties, applied mathematicians, engineers and economists started to pay c10se attention to the optimization problems in which another (lower-Ievel) optimization problem arises as a side constraint.

Backward stochastic differential equations with jumps can be used to solve problems in both finance and insurance.

Collecting together contributed lectures and mini-courses, this book details the research presented in a special semester titled "e;Geometric mechanics - variational and stochastic methods"e; run in the first half of 2015 at the Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli (CIB) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

Based on the "e;Sixth International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; (Piraeus, Greece, July 2023), this volume includes contributions from experts who share their latest discoveries on disasters either caused by natural phenomena or human activities.